The pro-gun position is "guns don't kill people, people kill people" ... so let's tackle just the "people" side of things:

If the solution is preventing people with criminal or mental issues from obtaining guns (as opposed to getting rid of guns themselves), how does that happen without checking those person's backgrounds?

And since you don't know beforehand who those people are, how can you identify just those people without running a check on every person wishing to buy a gun?

In short: how do we prevent the "bad guys" from having guns without a check of some sort?

"If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hard-line, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world but not with Republicans? Maybe he’s not the problem."

I said I never made it to Woodstock becauseI'd "stayed home to hold down the fort"..."THE FORT" the Digger's Free Store in theBowery. I was easy to pick out, I was thecute one with the big boobs, and a shotgunacross her knees guarding the 13-17 y.o.run-away kids left in her charge.

I'm still not "gun-shy", in fact I went onto TEACH Marksmenship to our Scout Group.

I was elected "The person you'd least wantto be running away from in a fire-fight."

That Sed: I don't want guns in our household...even though I'd have no problem with thebackground check... For the same reason, a matter of Self-Policingjust like I never allowed myself to do HARD Drugs (because I KNOW I have an addictivepersonality) I won't allow guns in our homebecause I KNOW I have a "Hair-Trigger-Temper".

but given certain situations,if it came down to it, I'd be the person you'dmost want to "have your back" if necessary.

and yes, I can lay my hands on assault weaponswith 100 round drum clips at a moments notice....but they're better off where they are...

_________________________."...or am I a butterfly dreaming she's a woman?"

You kind of got off track. When MrB said "From what I gather from the chief is that this happens at these things" he was talking about the second line parades in NOLA that they mentioned in the article, they happen all of the time down there. "These things" wasn't referring to Mother's Day parades.

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